Posted by Mary ChastainTuesday, May 24, 2016 at 5:30pm5/24/2016 at 5:30pm

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told French Prime
Minister Manuel Valls he wants to hold a one-on-one meeting with
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas instead of a multinational
conference in Paris. Netanyahu thinks Abbas will use the conference
as a way to ignore direct negotiations with Israel.

Posted by Mary ChastainWednesday, May 18, 2016 at 2:30pm5/18/2016 at 2:30pm

A civilian fighter in Nigeria has rescued one of the 276 girls
kidnapped by Boko Haram in 2014.

The fighter with the Civilian Joint Task Force (JTF) recognized
Amina Ali Nkek in the Sambisa Forest, located near the Cameroon and
Nigeria border. Officials believe the radical Islamic group has
held the girls...